WALTHER F. INGO

(H/B) VAN GOGH
Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record prices of tens of millions of dollars at auction. Yet as he was painting the canvases that would subsequently become these sell-out modern masterpieces, van Gogh was battling not only the disinterest of his contemporary audiences but also devastating bouts of mental illness, with episodes of depression and paralyzing anxiety whi...
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(H/B) VAN GOGH
Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, and many paintings and drawings beyond, we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the portrayal of mood and place through paint, pencil, charcoal, or chalk. Yet as he was deploying the lurid colors, emphatic brushwork, and contoured forms that would subsequently make his name, van Gogh battled not only the disinterest of his contemporary audience but also devastatin...
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(H/B) CHAGALL
For Marc Chagall (1887-1985), painting was an intricate tapestry of dreams, tales, and traditions. His instantly recognizable visual language carved out a unique early 20th-century niche, often identified as one of the earliest expressions of psychic experience. Chagall's canvases are characterized by loose brushwork, deep colors, a particular fondness for blue, and a repertoire of recurring tropes including musicians, roosters, rooftops, flowers, and floating lovers. For all their ethereal charms, his compositions were often rich and comp...
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(H/B) IMPRESSIONISM
It was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in April 1874, critics seized upon the work's title and its loose stylistic rendering of light and motion upon water to deride this new, impressionistic tendency in art. As with many seminal art movements, the critics got their comeuppance. Today, Impressionism is close contender for the world's favorite period of painting. With blockbuster exhibitions, record-breaking auction prices, and packed museums, the wor...
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(H/B-25) PAUL GAUGUIN, 1848-1903
There cannot have been many other artists who set out as wholeheartedly to live the life they envisioned in their art as Paul Gauguin did. He lived between two worlds. In this art he held up a mirror to his own civilization, which he despised, and showed an alternative, primitive life in all its simple, naive harmony. But painting was not enough for Gauguin. He wanted to experience it himself. He wanted to prove that South Seas exoticism was not merely a forced and illusory escapism, of the kind that was fascinating his European contempora...
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(H/B) VAN GOGH
Meet Vincent van Gogh, one of the most famed tragic figures of 19th century art. This lush tome collects all his 871 paintings, alongside writings and essays, charting the life and work of a master who continues to tower over art to this day. From Sunflowers and The Starry Night to Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, celebrate an artist uniquely dexterous in the representation of texture and mood, light and place. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) MARC CHAGALL,1887-1985
Marc Chagall: poet, dreamer, exotic apparition. Throughout his long life, the role of outsider and artistic eccentric came naturally to him. Chagall seemed a kind of intermediary between worlds: whether as a Jew with a lordly disdain for the ancient ban on image-making, or as a Russian who went beyond the realm of familiar self-sufficiency, or as the son of poor parents, growing up in a large and needy family, yet going on to establish himself in the sophisticated world of elegant artistic salons. The potential for assimilation and the lib...
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VINCENT VAN GOGH 1853-1890
«This man will either go mad or else leave us way behind.» Camille Pissarro (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)...
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PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)
«I am a great artist, and I know it». (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)...
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ΓΚΩΓΚΕΝ ΠΩΛ
Η ιμπρεσιονιστική περίοδος 1848-1887 Υποβολή και έκφραση 1888-1891 Το εργαστήρι στους τροπικούς: Ταϊτή 1891-1893 "Ο σημαντικότερος μοντέρνος ζωγράφος" 1893-1895 Η κληρονομιά των τροπικών 1895-1903 ΠωλΓκωγκέν 1848-1903 Χρονολογία...
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ΜΑΡΚ ΣΑΓΚΑΛ 1887-1985

(P/B-25) IMPRESSIONISM
On 15 April 1874 an exhibition featuring 30 artists opened in the Paris studio of Nadar the photographer. They had joined for the express purpose of presenting their work to the public as a group. It was the first group exhibition to be mounted without state intervention or the jurying process. And it was also the birth of Impressionism - an avant-garde event, a revolution that was to be of great significance for all the movements that followed, in Modernist art and after. And the art that went on display was avant-garde and revolutionary ...
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ΒΑΝ ΓΚΟΓΚ
ΜΙΣΟΣ ΚΑΛΟΓΕΡΟΣ, ΜΙΣΟΣ ΚΑΛΛΙΤΕΧΝΗΣ ΤΑ ΠΡΩΤΑ ΒΗΜΑΤΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΛΛΑΝΔΙΑ 1881-1885 ΤΑ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΜΑΘΗΤΕΙΑΣ ΑΜΒΕΡΣΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΡΙΣΙ 1885-1888 Η ΕΚΡΗΞΗ ΤΟΥ ΧΡΩΜΑΤΟΣ ΑΡΛ 1888-1889 ΖΩΓΡΑΦΙΚΗ, ΟΠΩΣ ΖΩΗ SAINT-REMY ΚΑΙ AUVERS 1889-1890 ΒΙΝΣΕΝΤ ΒΑΝ ΓΚΟΓΚ 1853-1890 Η ΖΩΗ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΕΡΓΟ ΤΟΥ...
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VINCENT VAN GOGH 1853-1890
"This man will either go insane or leave us all far behind," prophesied the great Impressionist Camille Pissaro. The man was Vincent van Gogh ( 1853 - 1890 ), a vicar' s son born at Groot-Zundert near Breda in Holland, who at that time was struggling to find buyers for his paintings. Van Gogh did indeed go at least to the brink of insanity. And he has long been recognised as one of the greatest modern artists. Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man his ...
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PICASSO
Picasso was that rare thing in history, an artist of cultic presence, a secular manifestation of the spirit, a genuinely commanding phenomenon. Picasso’s name and work are synonymous with 20th century art. They are the very definition of our era’s artistic endeavour. This was already the case in his own lifetime; and by now he has long since become a myth, a legend for the age of mass media. Because this is so, Picasso’s image as artist is one of infinite diversity. Many were those who played a part in his life, and many where those who le...
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PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
«You expect me to tell you: what is art? If I knew, I would keep my knowledge to myself.» Pablo Picasso (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)...
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VINCENT VAN GOGH (PART I)
(...) Van Gogh's life's work as an artist remains ambivalent to a degree that was not yet been fully recognized. His paintings are notable for their immediacy, their sensuous impact. They draw their power from the painter's affectionate openness towards all things, towards Man and Nature. Still, the pleasure that he takes in a veritably naive identification with the world is continually overshadowed by profound eschatological intuitions, by apprehensions of transience and death. The hand that reaches out tenderly is retracted at the last m...
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ΠΑΜΠΛΟ ΠΙΚΑΣΟ 1881-1973
(...) Η μεγαλοφυΐα του 20ου αιώνα. Δεν ήταν αποξενωμένος από το έργο του πάντοτε πρόθυμος να αλλάζει, γνώρισε τεράστια επιτυχία και τον διέκρινε μια αστείρευτη ζωτικότητα ως τα βαθιά του γεράματα. Επιπλέον, η ζωή του ήταν πάντοτε δημόσια. Η τέχνη του αποτέλεσε υπόδειγμα, κρατώντας την απαραίτητη ισορροπία ανάμεσα στα δυο άκρα: της μόνιμης πρόκλησης από τη μια και της συνεχούς προσαρμοστικότητας από την άλλη. Επανειλημμένα, ο Πικάσο έδειξε ότι γνώριζε σαφώς την τέχνη του, ενώ παράλληλα κρατούσε πάντα την επαφή του με τα κριτήρια του κοινού...
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VAN GOGH 1853 - 1890
"This man will either go insane or leave us all far behind," prophesied the great Impressionist Camille Pissaro. The man was Vincent van Gogh ( 1853 - 1890 ), a vicar' s son born at Groot-Zundert near Breda in Holland, who at that time was struggling to find buyers for his paintings. Van Gogh did indeed go at least to the brink of insanity. And he has long been recognised as one of the greatest modern artists. Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man his ...
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IMPRESSIONISM
(...) Impressionist painting has remained the most fascinating product of modern art - and the most popular, as has been shown in recent years by spectacularly successful exhibitions of Degas, Gauguin, van Gogh, Manet, Monet or Renoir. Their work fetches record prices. The critical literature on them fills libraries. And yet some aspects of Impressionism have not been sufficiently researched, while several of the painters and their works have remained unknown, or have been forgotten. This study describes the history of Impressionism, and o...
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